19 Amendments of Maria BADIA i CUTCHET related to 2011/2087(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas major events and participation in sport provide extraordinary opportunities to exploit the potential of tourism development in Europe, which can spread the values and principles linked to sport,
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas national teams have a keyn important role to play in representing the country and its image and must be protected,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas professional sport is vulnerable totoo is seriously affected by financial instability,
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of encouraging participation in sports activities in schools and universities as well as of promoting sport among all members of the public, as this fosters values of peaceful coexistence, understanding and solidarity and a healthy lifestyle;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on sports organisations to pay greater attention to the needs of disabled sportspeopleboth physically and mentally disabled sportspeople and to dedicate more time to them;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to support the fight against doping, while respecting in the performance of medical checks and tests athletes’ individual freedom; urges the Member States to treat trafficking in illegal performance-enhancing substances in the same way as trafficking in illegal drugs and to adopt national legislation to this end, thereby helping to improve European coordination in this field;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that women’s sport needs greater societal recognition and higher visibility; urges the Member States to promote the appointment of women to coaching and managerial posts in the world of sport, to increase the number and impact of top women’s competitions broadcast by the media, to encourage women and girls to take up competitive and non-competitive sport and to increase the funds allocated to women’s sport;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages Member States to take account of the experience of former sportspeople when they wish to become trainers, and to establish specific career paths for high-level athletes who decide to pursue a course of higher education - irrespective of their field of study - and provide tutors for them;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that, where sports take place in the natural environment, a balance must be ensured between their societal benefits and the health of the natural environments in which they take place;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Encourages the Member States and the Community institutions to increase their grants to organisations that seek to integrate through sport people at risk of social exclusion or that promote sport for physically or mentally disabled people;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that sport has a huge potential for combating and preventing illness and promoting a healthy lifestyle and urges therefore that full use be made of the opportunities it offers for controlling spending on healthcare;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that professional sportspeople should be entitled to the same social security rights as workers;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fundamental importance of the current system of structuring commercial exploitation of audiovisual rights for sports competitions being carried out on a centralised, exclusive and territorial basis, but this should not rule out examining at some future point in time the possibility of establishing a European basis for broadcasting rights;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that betting on sport is a form of commercial exploitation of competitions and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure this occurs legally and to protect betting from unauthorised activities, in particular by recognising organisers’ intellectual property rights with regard to their competitions, in accordance with the Audiovisual Media Directive, guaranteeing a significant contribution from betting operators towards funding mass-participation sportsports training and by protection the integrity of competitions;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for grassroots and character- building sport to benefit from the European Structural Funds;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises the important role played by local bodies in promoting sport for all within society and calls on these bodies to be actively involved in the European forums for debate and dialogue aimed at the sports world;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that training for players at local level is needed for the sustainable development of European sport and for the values associated with sport to influence individuals and society;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include on the agenda for cooperation with non-member States problems such as international player transfers, exploitation of underage players, piracy and illegal betting; urges likewise that European collaboration to stop violence and discriminatory behaviour during sports events be stepped up and encourages the establishment of links for cooperation in supporting sports-based social integration projects;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on clubs to ensure compliance with immigration laws when they recruitsign up young people from non-member States, and to ensure that they return toall the terms of their country of origin under satisfactory conditions if their career does not take offact comply with the law in force;